That same year he met Mona Nasser, the president's second daughter, who was 17 at the time. Bar-Joseph's book addresses whether Marwan was a genuine spy or a double agent. Marwan was born in Egypt on 2 February 1944 to a respected family. Police are also reported to have lost Marwan's shoes, which could hold clues on whether or not Marwan jumped from the balcony. Name variations: Tahia Kazem. Feeling personally, politically and financially constrained, Marwan and his wife moved to London in 1968, then the world’s swinging capital of the high life. ... Marwan and his wife, Mona Nasser, the daughter of the former Egyptian president, were due to take their five grandchildren on holiday. Following additional political pressures, Sadat had to relieve him from that position in October 1978. Born Tahia Mahmoud Kazem in 1923 in Cairo, Egypt; daughter of a successful merchant; attended a French preparatory school in Cairo; married Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970, a military officer and later president of Egypt, from 1956 to 1970), in 1944; children: daughters Hoda Nasser (b. Marwan … Marwan's funeral in Egypt was led by Egypt's highest-ranked religious leader, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, and attended by, amongst others, Gamal Mubarak, son of the forme… Directed by Ariel Vromen. "My father would send my husband to missions in foreign countries. Nasser said that the couple had been looking forward to holidays with their five grandchildren, and had made many plans for the long and short term. His grandfather was the chief of the Sharia courts in Egypt, and his father, a military officer, reached the rank of General in the Egyptian Republican Guard. [11] After Nasser's death in September 1970, Marwan became a close aide to Sadat, who needed him by his side in order to demonstrate that he had the support of Nasser's family. An inquest this week will attempt finally to unravel the circumstances of Marwan's fatal fall. On 14 February 1974 he became Secretary to the President of the Republic for Foreign Relations,[21] a new position that reflected Sadat's ruling style. Marwan had married Nasser’s younger daughter, Mona, in 1966. She believes he was killed by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, and is expected to be a witness at the coroner's inquest that opens on Monday. Mossad agents say Marwan was their heroic spy at the heart of the Egyptian government. she said. He had reasons to live. "I believe that the intruders took him to the bedroom, they hit him and they threw him out of the window over the balcony. [29], At the time of the investigation, Marwan's wife said she believed that Mossad was behind his death. He was killed by Mossad," she said. A police spokesman said that the three-year investigation into Marwan's death, which was removed from one set of detectives and handed to the Specialist Crime Directorate after Marwan's shoes were lost, continues. In 1995, during a dispute for control of Chelsea FC between the sitting[25] chairman Ken Bates and Matthew Harding, it was revealed in the media that Marwan owned 1.5 million shares at the club. Because of the warning, Israel began mobilizing its forces on the morning of 6 October, hours before the attack was launched. In 1965, at the age of 21, Marwan graduated Cairo University with a degree in chemical engineering and was conscripted into the army. The baby’s father, Ashraf Marwan, looks on at left. In late 1968 Marwan, Mona, and their new-born son, Gamal, left for London, allegedly for the continuation of Marwan's studies. Mona Nasser, Marwan's wife of 40 years and one of two daughters of the former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, said that her husband confided … His wife said the lock on the front door had been left on the latch by one of their household staff. [9]:245–246, By that stage, however, Marwan had accumulated a considerable number of personal enemies, who accused him of using his closeness to Sadat to gain personal wealth. His death in the heart of wealthy London made world headlines. A housekeeper in the flat was the only other person present in the 15-room apartment, giving an intruder ample time to find Marwan and kill him, she claimed. After Marwan died, his family discovered that the draft manuscript of his memoirs – which threatened to expose secrets of the Middle East's intelligence agencies – had disappeared from his bookshelf. "The investigation was extremely negligent. My husband refused to give me sensitive information about his trips because that would have put me in danger," she said. "My husband was a hero who served his country. "[4] Further, Marwan was at least the third Egyptian living in London to die under similar circumstances, all of whom had ties with the Egyptian security services.[4]. When Ashraf Marwan fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat, he took his secrets with him. (ret.) Marwan reported on Sadat's decision and the military preparations for war but expressed his opinion that, ultimately, Egypt would be deterred from militarily challenging Israel. In an exclusive interview, his widow has told the Observer that in the days before he died her husband believed his life was in danger. From 1969, Marwan served in the Presidential Office, first under Gamal Abdel Nasser and then as a close aide to his successor, President Anwar Sadat. His grandfather was the chief of the Sharia courts in Egypt, and his father, a military officer, reached the rank of General in the Egyptian Republican Guard. His other son, Gamal, is a close friend of Gamal Mubarak, the son of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.[9]:322. Marwan spied for the Israeli intelligence agency (the Mossad) during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, feeding Israel strategic information on the location of Egyptian military assets. US Edition. Ashraf Marwan: the story as told by Israel ... Abdullah Mubarak As-Sabah (this Sabah also gave cash to Sadat and his wife from the mid-1960s and was known for his payments to Lebanese press). The funeral of Ashraf Marwan, Nasser's son-in-law - YouTube Ashraf Marwan (Arabic: أشرف مروان, 2 February 1944 – 27 June 2007) was an Egyptian billionaire. News reports indicate that the Metropolitan Police Service increasingly believe Marwan was murdered, a belief also held by Marwan's elder son, Gamal. With Toby Kebbell, Marwan Kenzari, Hannah Ware, Waleed Zuaiter. CAIRO, Oct. 7(SEE)- Ashraf Marwan is an Egyptian diplomat and businessman who worked in the Central Factories of the Armed Forces and then as former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s assistant. Mona Marwan, widow of Egyptian billionaire Ashraf Marwan, leaving Westminster Coroners Court Credit: Photo: HEARHCLIFF O'MALLEY [32], Professor Uri Bar-Joseph wrote a book published in 2016, The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel, later used as the basis of a Netflix film, The Angel. Since his death, there has been intense speculation over the secretive life of Marwan and his role in the Yom Kippur war, waged between Israel and a coalition of Arab states backing Egypt and Syria in 1973. He soon began working closely with her father. Those fears were at their most intense just days after an Israeli court ruled that Major-General Eli Zeira, who headed Israeli military intelligence during the 1973 war, had exposed Marwan's identity as an Israeli spy. In Libya, he was close to Muammar Gaddafi, and his counterpart for many missions was Libyan Prime Minister Abdessalam Jalloud. The double agent, Ashraf Marwan (played by Marwan Kenzari) gets himself into trouble being squeezed between two countries on the brink of war. The shoes may have carried clues as to how he died, because he suffered from neuropathy in his feet. I am talking about it for the first time because the truth should come out," she said. [13], Egypt had begun preparing a war with the aim of retaking the Sinai Peninsula that it had lost to the Israelis in the 1967 Six Day War. On the day that Marwan died, he had been working hard on his memoirs of his role in the 1970s, according to family members. He gained a reputation as a mysterious man, who did not play according to the rules of the City. Nasser, Tahia (1923—)First lady of Egypt. The meeting took place on Friday late at night in London, and Marwan informed Zamir that "war would start tomorrow". Maj. Gen. He was determined to carry on as normal," she said. Israeli military intelligence leaders, including Eli Zeira, due to the May false alarm, refused to accept the evidence of numerous warnings and indicators that the Arabs planned to attack. In May 1971, Marwan played an important role in defeating an alleged coup attempt by Nasser's loyalists, including Sami Sharaf, against Sadat's rule. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP, three-year investigation into Marwan's death. Nasser, speaking from her home in Cairo, said that Marwan told her three times in the four years before he died that his life was in peril. Without it, the entire Golan Heights would have been lost, and the war likely would have ended with far greater Israeli losses of both territory and life. Bregman's source was Maj. Gen. Marwan continued working for the Mossad until 1998 and was handled throughout the period by his single case officer, Dubi. One witness, who was on the third floor of a nearby building, told police that he saw two men "wearing suits and of Mediterranean appearance" appear on the balcony moments after Marwan's fall, look down, and then return inside the apartment. [1][2] Marwan died under mysterious circumstances in June 2007, falling from the balcony of his London house. [20] His identity as a spy for Israel was revealed in December 2002 by the London-based Israeli historian Ahron Bregman, who claimed that Marwan was a double agent who had deceived the Israelis. Nasser has also criticised the investigation by the Metropolitan Police into Marwan's death as negligent. During his university studies he met President Nasser’s daughter, Mona, charmed her and, in July 1966, married her in a glorious marriage ceremony. Accordingly, Israel's leadership did not mobilize the reserve army, then 80% of the IDF ground forces. Marwan Spy’s Career10 Ashraf Marwan was born in Cairo in 1944 to a prosperous family. After Anwar Sadat, who had succeeded Nasser as president in 1970, was assassinated in 1981, Marwan and his family moved to London. The cause of death was traumatic aortic rupture following a fall from the balcony of his fifth-floor apartment. He only did what was asked of him to perfection," she said. Despite his official title, Marwan was actually Sadat's personal emissary in charge of relations with Saudi Arabia and Libya. [8] Nevertheless, under her pressure, he agreed to the marriage, which took place in July 1966. "He was happy. According to President Mubarak, "Marwan carried out patriotic acts which it is not yet time to reveal. In autumn 1973, Sadat decided to launch a war without waiting for the arms that had been his precondition, and Egypt accelerated its war preparations. At right is Nasser’s youngest son, Abdel Hakim. Ashraf Marwan, son-in-law of Egypt's late President Nasser, was named three years ago by Israeli officials as a source for the country's intelligence service Mossad. Throughout the book, Bar-Joseph explores the reasons why Marwan approached the Mossad, in London in 1970. [3] Simon Parkin, a British journalist who investigated the case, regards him as the "20th century's greatest spy". In 2002, Bregman claimed that the Egyptian Ashraf Marwan, the son-in-law of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was a Mossad spy. The British magazine Private Eye also followed the story closely and suggested that there was considerable cause for suspicion surrounding the circumstances of Marwan's death. Nasser said that the police investigation following her husband's death had been a sham. 1946) and Mona Nasser (b. [9]:239–240, On 28 October, a few days after the war ended and two days before Golda Meir started critical talks in the White House, Zamir conferred with "the Angel" once more to get information about Sadat's goals in the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations that were to start. Ekhterak was filmed in Marwan's London apartment and included interviews with his son, a witness, and acquaintances of Marwan. Marwan had plans. In Saudi Arabia, he worked hand in hand with Kamal Adham, King Feisal's brother-in-law, who established and supervised the Saudi security service. In 2002 it became known that, during the period leading up to the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, Marwan spied for Israel (under the Mossad code-name "The Angel"). [2][6], Marwan was born in Egypt on 2 February 1944 to a respected family. A few months later, the young couple was ordered by Nasser, who was irritated by information concerning their lavish lifestyle, to return to Egypt, where Marwan continued working under Sami Sharaf. He had appointments. Marwan Affair. Dr Ashraf Marwan, 63, fell from the fourth floor of his flat in June 2007. [31] However, an analysis in The Guardian found this scenario to be unlikely: "For one thing, killing a former agent after his name is revealed would seem to be a major disincentive for new recruits. They lost the shoes he was wearing when died. "[27] Following a case review in January 2008, the investigation was transferred to the Specialist Crime Directorate, both because of its public nature and because the shoes Marwan was wearing when he fell, key evidence in the case, had been lost. ... Marwan’s wife (played by Israeli actor Maisa Abd Elhadi) gets short shrift from David Arata’s pedestrian script, the film preferring instead to focus on the relationship between Marwan and his Mossad handler in London. [18], On Thursday, 4 October, about 44 hours before the war, Marwan called Dubi, his Mossad handler in London, and asked to meet the Mossad chief urgently to talk about "a lot of chemicals", code for war. There is no way he killed himself. Marwan's unparalleled access to his nation's best-kept secrets, especially after his promotion in May 1971, allowed him to provide Israel with information about the coming war, including the full Egyptian war plans, detailed accounts of military exercises, original documentation of Egypt's arm deals with the Soviet Union and other countries, the Egyptian military Order of Battle, the minutes from meetings of the high command, accounts of Sadat's private conversations with other Arab leaders and even the minutes of secret summit meetings in Moscow between Sadat and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. [19] During the war, he met with Zamir once more to explain Sadat's warnings in a speech in the Egyptian Parliament to launch missiles on Israel. Ashraf Marwan was well connected and married to the daughter of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Although, under Nasser, he held only a junior position, the president used him sometimes for delicate missions such as calming the crisis that erupted after General Saad el-Shazly's resignation from the army when his rival was nominated as chief of staff. [20], After the 1973 war, Marwan continued his way to the top. According to Bregman, Marwan volunteered for the Mossad in 1970 but then proceeded to mislead the Israelis before the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Late Thursday night, October 4, he telephoned Dubi from there. Given Sadat's dissatisfaction with the conduct of his foreign minister, Ismail Fahmy, Marwan was considered as a candidate to replace him. [15], The information that Marwan provided made its way to the desks of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, and Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff Chaim Bar-Lev in raw form. Marwan’s determination grows after he finds out that Nasser told his wife, Mona, to divorce him. He knew they were coming after him. At least one witness claims to have seen two men of Middle Eastern appearance on his fifth-floor balcony seconds after he fell. “Ashraf Marwan, whom I knew well, was an Egyptian hero and an Egyptian spy who misled the Mossad by feeding them, for years, with wrong information,” Bregman told TIME in 2018. He was ambitious, intelligent, born into a good family and handsome. Nasser met Marwan, a tall, handsome chemist, in August 1965 in Cairo, where they were both students. Mona Nasser, Marwan's wife of 40 years and one of two daughters of the former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, said that her husband confided that he was being pursued by assassins nine days before his death. Marwan's funeral in Egypt was led by Egypt's highest-ranked religious leader, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, and attended by, amongst others, Gamal Mubarak, son of the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and intelligence chief Omar Suleiman. IT WAS Ashraf Marwan who turned them back on. Marwan is the son of Ashraf Marwan, the political security advisor to the late Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat. Ashraf Marwan, 62, who was married to Abdel Nasser’s daughter Mona, had been living in London for many years after leaving Egyptian government service late in the 1970s. At the same year he met Mona Nasser, the president’s second daughter, who was 17 at the time. The shoes that Marwan was wearing when he died – which may have provided vital DNA evidence to show whether he was murdered or jumped – were lost by investigating officers. They were married the following year. Do people committing suicide scream before they fall?" Speaking of her husband's alleged role in the Yom Kippur war, Nasser said that she confronted her husband in 2003 but he had denied that he had any direct contact with Mossad agents. [2], Secretary to the President of the Republic for Foreign Relations, "Review: The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel", "Who killed the 20th century's greatest spy? Libya delivered to Egypt Mirage-5 aircraft that were considered critical for the coming war and which, under the French embargo, could not be sold directly to Egypt. “Ashraf Marwan, whom I knew well, was an Egyptian hero and an Egyptian spy who misled the Mossad by feeding them, for years, with wrong information,” Bregman … Mohammed Ashraf Abu al-Wafa Marwan, known simply as Ashraf Marwan, was the son-in-law of Sadat’s predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser ― one of the greatest Arab leaders in history. Biography of Ashraf Marwan (excerpt) Ashraf Marwan (2 February 1944 – 27 June 2007) was an Egyptian billionaire. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy … Ashraf Marwan (1944 - 2007, centre, right), his bride, Mona Gamal Abdel Nasser (centre, left), daughter of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970, second from left), at their wedding at the President's home in Manshiyat al-Bakri, Cairo, 7th July 1966. She fell in love with him, but her father suspected that Marwa… That tip came from Ashraf Marwan, a well-connected Egyptian national: Marwan’s father-in-law was Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Marwan … Marwan died on 27 June 2007 outside his flat in Carlton House Terrace, London. Mona Nasser explains why she is sure he was pushed, Mona Nasser in Cairo. The last time he did so, they were alone together in their London flat. Egyptian president Nasser and his wife, Tahia, with their second grandson, Gamal Marwan, born to their daughter Mona, April 27, 1967. [14] As a senior Israeli intelligence officer had said, by providing the documents Marwan turned his country, Israel's main enemy, into an open book. He was accused of being both an Israeli spy and an Egyptian double agent. However, since Marwan's death Nasser said she had learned from Egyptian intelligence officers that he did have a role in feeding Mossad with false information. [citation needed][13]. [12], In his new capacity, Marwan developed excellent relations with the Saudi and the Libyan leaderships. Ellissy published his book The Agent Babel in Arabic through Dar Al Shorouq press, and it was launched on 2 February 2009. [9], In 1968 Marwan started working in the Presidential Office under Sami Sharaf, Nasser's aide-de-camp and the strongman of the Egyptian security service, who kept an eye on him. He had left for Paris a few days before Yom Kippur with an Egyptian delegation. Marwan was so hurt by Nasser contempt for him, that he volunteered for the Mossad. I have a lot of different enemies.' Marwan and his wife, Mona Nasser, the daughter of the former Egyptian president, were due to take their five grandchildren on holiday. Someone on a fourth-floor balcony who gave evidence to the police heard him scream before he fell. Coroner Dr William Dolman today rejected suggestions that he committed suicide or was unlawfully killed. It is so horrible. In 2007, Ashraf Marwan fell to his death from his balcony in London. Cairo, EGYPT: Mona Abdel Nasser, daughter of former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and wife of Egyptian billionaire Ashraf Marwan, receives condolences during a funeral services of her husband in Cairo 01 July 2007. Mona Nasser leaves Marwan toward the end of … In 2017, Salon Productions purchased the rights to turn the book into a feature documentary. This was all vital information," she said. Egyptian journalist Amr Ellissy conducted an investigation into Marwan's death for his documentary series Ekhterak, broadcast on Egyptian television in six episodes on the first anniversary of Marwan's death. They did not take fingerprints. In a review of the book in the CIA's Studies in Intelligence, Thomas G. Coffey states that it persuasively "argues that the nature of the intelligence Marwan gave the Israelis was simply too destructive of Egyptian interests" for Marwan to have been a double agent and that it offers "a convincing defense" against the claim that the intelligence he provided was "late, flawed, and of little practical use". Among others he was involved in the failed attempt by Tiny Rowland to take over the House of Fraser, a group of department stores, whose jewel in the crown was Harrods, where the English aristocracy used to shop. One of Marwan's sons was married to the daughter of former Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa. [10], Marwan's service at the Presidential Office lasted eight years (1968–1976). As became evident, he did not know the exact D-Day when calling Dubi on Thursday and learned about it only after he arrived in London on Friday morning. [29] The others, all of whom were involved in Egyptian politics between 1966 and 1971, are actress Suad Hosni; Egyptian ambassador to Greece Al-Leithy Nassif;[30] and Ali Shafeek, secretary in the office of former Egyptian Vice President Abdel Hakim Amer. It shaped Israel's strategic and tactical approach to Egypt and allowed the Israelis a direct look at Egypt's war calculus, including Sadat's minimal requirements for launching a war: mainly long-range attack aircraft and Scud missiles without which Egypt could not have overcome Israeli air superiority. "I was worried, of course, but in our life together we had been in many dangerous situations. His warning on 5 October 1973 that "war will start tomorrow", triggered an emergency Israeli military mobilization and prevented both a complete surprise on 6 October and the complete occupation of the Golan Heights by the Syrian Army a day later. They did not seal the area properly. Zvi Zamir, the Mossad Chief who was one of Marwan's handlers, describes him as "the best source we have ever had". The cause of death was traumatic aortic rupture following a fall from the balcony of his fifth-floor apartment. [26], Marwan married Mona Abdel Nasser in the 1960s. The billionaire arms dealer, who was the son-in-law of Egypt's second president, fell to his death from a fifth-floor West End balcony on a summer's day in 2007.
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